Writer, bookseller, cafe owner, bibliophile, darkness-kicker, mild maniac, mother, iconoclast.
Owner/operator of Trident Booksellers & Cafe, Halifax
Monsters are friends.
@charlotteashley.bsky.socialWhAt how am I just hearing about this now 🔥🔥🔥
Charlotte Ashley
@charlotteashley.bsky.social
@charlotteashley.bsky.social@charlotteashley.bsky.socialExactly! 😭😭😭😭
@charlotteashley.bsky.socialYou know, I actually feel like I have seen almost this exact review before? Maybe it's just being regurgitated...
@charlotteashley.bsky.socialThis one was posted like ten minutes ago. Fake! I have not quoted any real ones yet (I think? Did I?)
@charlotteashley.bsky.socialI mean I WISH they were real!
@charlotteashley.bsky.socialAnother fake post. 😭
@charlotteashley.bsky.socialBonus dime if you can capture whatever tf is happening with the clouds over the harbour
@charlotteashley.bsky.socialShiny quarter to the person who can catch a photo of that rainbow AND the lightning over Halifax right now
@charlotteashley.bsky.socialHey Halifax, is anyone I know even remotely going to see Rubin & the Dark at the Seahorse on the 15th? I'm going alone and I don't wanna go alone. 🥺
@charlotteashley.bsky.socialI made the paper! 😂
@reuters.comReposted by @charlotteashley.bsky.socialBREAKING: Anne Carson wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature reut.rs/4y9nOVm
@charlotteashley.bsky.socialIt's not really personally onerous... it just makes me sad for us all. We are in a post-truth society.
@charlotteashley.bsky.socialThat's my guess. The first one (linked below) reviews a pile of "local" places across the country in the span of a few days. Maybe building a history so the later scam looks credible?
@charlotteashley.bsky.socialToday's fake review ALSO contains menu items we don't serve & other inaccurate (but complimentary!) details. It gets so much right that it almost* passes. You have to be me to know it isn't right. The Report button doesn't even let you state your case. Somehow, it is supposed to be self-explanitory?
@charlotteashley.bsky.social"They" probably also being AI agents, who are drawing from the sammy muddy mess as the bots leaving the reviews to begin with. 😒
@charlotteashley.bsky.socialI have reported a fake review that lists items we don't have on our menu (delicious, apparently), contains a stolen picture from @markleslie.bsky.social, and a second, AI-generated photo full of nonsense 4 or 5 times now. They keep rejecting because "they" don't see anything wrong with it.
@charlotteashley.bsky.socialFake POSITIVE Google reviews are my new least-favourite thing. They are impossible to get removed, because they aren't hateful, explicit, etc etc etc. they are just.... AI generated. The pictures aren't real, the details of the experience are wrong. There's no category for that.
@tricon-hfx.bsky.socialReposted by @charlotteashley.bsky.socialIt is happening! Prepping some surprises and delights for the @halconscificon.bsky.social Stories from the Stars book fair! Cole Harbour Place TOMORROW, 10am - 4pm!
@badhandbooks.bsky.socialReposted by @charlotteashley.bsky.socialWe're having a busy autumn of fantastic releases!
Coming next month: RISE FROM THESE DARK WATERS by @mmdaviesostrom.bsky.social. Illustrated by @tomsbrown.bsky.social. Thank you @cgolden.bsky.social for this generous praise.
Pre-order wherever you get your books.
@joannemerriam.bsky.socialReposted by @charlotteashley.bsky.socialBook launch at @writersfedofns.bsky.social! Thanks @charlotteashley.bsky.social for intro! I gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and The Writers Union of Canada. So grateful to everyone who came out. My heart is very full. #BookSky #BringingTheArtsToLife
